San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-03
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

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the hiding place of that injunction suit
against the city hall and county court
house, report nothing in site.
The prospects appear to be very good
fol- building that proposed pavilion and
the work will probably be under way by
the middle of this month. So much for
a little judiciOus fabrication by the CON-
mittee of thirty.
If Jefferson Davis dies now, he will
have died two weeks too late for the best
interests OF the democratic party. He
will also die one year too soon for the
most signal triumph OF the republican
party.
IL. this city wishes to zee a decent in
flux of visitors this winter, now is the
Clearing-up time. Render the city so
clean that ii will attract attention, and
visitors will report the condition, and
sight-seers and health-seekers will null
tipy.
The cattlemen's convention at Kansas
City did righteous thing in demand
ing the repeal Of the OleOmargarine tax
law. 1t is as perniciOus a piece of class
legislation as was ever enacted. The
Texas steer has equal rights with the
Jersey. This discriminating In favor OF
foreign products is untImely.
THIS democratic administration which
processes to be free trade administra-
ton, notifies the contractor for that in
ternatiOnRl bridge, at Laredo, that II
any Mexican materials are used on the
American end those materials will
have TO pay duty. This littleness Of
spirit in great things and the attempted
greatness Of spirit in little things which
CharaCterIZes this democratic mensgerie
ut Washington is making the whole ma
tlOn tired.
The interstate commerce commission
denies the legality of the action OF the
Northern Pacific railway company in
making reduced rates to land purchasers
along the lines OF that road. This deCis-
ion extends, also, to the carrying Of the
effects OF these settlers below schedule
rates. This decision, in time, must Rf-
feet the settlements along the lines Of
that and other northwestern railway
lines, whose European agents by virtue
Of such reduced rates and comparatively
free transportation for emigrant settlers
upon their railroad lands, have turned
an immense stream of immigration into
he whole northwest. Under equal
transportation conditions much OF that
travel will come south.
SHERIFF MATsON, Of Chicago, says all
personal interviews with the condemned
men must end No petition for their
lives will be signed by any Of the con-
lemned men. Upon the receipt Of the
news at police headquarters at Chicago,
every detective on the force made him
self scarce, evidently in agreement with
orders previously received. 1t is no
doubt the intention of the Chicago Off
1ials to prevent any conspiracy within
or without the Jail TO Interfere with the
carrying out Of the sentences. The
| opinion lie very general in Chicago that
no Interference on the part of the gov
ernOr is likely to arrest the sentence Of
execution ordered to be carried out on
| the 18th November.
ONE would naturally think that there
we're democrats enough in any given
locality in Texas to fill the offices, with
| out doubling up on the inOumbents.
! such, however, does not appear to be
/ the case at Midland, where two able
bodied members Of the democratic
church enjoy the emOluments Of seven
| distinct and separate offices. This is
certainly an infringement upon the
/ rights OF five other members OF the Mid
land democracy and the injustice should
be done away with. This interfering
with the natural, eternal and iDalienS-
bic right Of five democrats to hold office
is likely to unsettle the foundations of
| government.
The New York health offlcers, not
COnteut with permitting the cholera
ships to land their Italian quotas upon
these shores without any regard TO the
probabilities of cholera infection, have
officially misrepresented the cases in
the quarsntined shi p Britannica and de-
clared two recent cases to be measles,
and that the cholera cases we're all we'll
or removed. Closer examination has
revealed the fact that not a single case
of measles had occurred and that cholera
was not extinct, two deaths having 90.
CURED late on Monday night. The
courts of Gotham should make such an
example of that board of health as
would forever hereafter assure the
people OF this country that the regula.
tions OF quarantine will be rigidly en-
forced.
The November Century opens with
two illustrated articles on The Home
and the Haunts of Washington" and
Mount Vernon AS 1t Is" From them
we quote the following: "The interest
Of the whole house centers In the room
where Washington died, The gen 'ars
room, the room | likes de besS in de
house. as the serVitor called it, in q tone
OF genuine and reverent affection. Just
where the great man lay a-dyiDg eighty
eight years ago, the bed now stands and
beside it the light stand on which are
the rings left by his medicine
glasses, unchanged since that day.
The secretary at which he
wrote, the hair-cOvered trunk in which
he carried his possessions, the survey
Or's tripod he had used, the cloak he
threw about his shoulders when he
went over the farm, the lesthern chair
in which he sat, the covering cut away
byIVandal hands, are all there. There
via EnmnLhlnn- In anltn Of thnaa q M